“I am a very happy man,” he said. “Unfortunately, we have not qualified for the next stage, but we are so close. We want to try to keep this level.”

Shakhtar boss Paulo Fonseca branded Sterling’s penalty “ridiculous”

“Everyone saw it. The penalty for everyone was ridiculous. There is no sense in saying anything about that penalty after such a result. We lost because City are a team at another level, much, much better than us.”